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Along here could be found the imposing edifice of the York City & County Bank, the Yorkshire Penny Bank and the 18th-century Reindeer Hotel.

Along here could be found the imposing edifice of the York City & County Bank, the Yorkshire Penny Bank and the 18th-century Reindeer Hotel.

The Henley Royal Regatta has become one of the key social occasions of the year, on a par with Royal Ascot and Wimbledon.

From the south bank the photographer looks across to Queenhithe dock. Although the river bank is relatively unchanged, all the riverside buildings have gone, the last only in 1996.

It is famous for the 'Paisley pattern' shawls which were the height of European fashion during most of the 19th Century.

The riverside willows on the north bank have only recently been pollarded in this view, in which an eight rows past. The opposite bank is Long Island.

The amount of change since 1929 is surprisingly small, although Cookes the stationer's has become Austin's.

Mitton means 'the village where the streams meet'. The Hodder and the Ribble meet here, and that is what gave the area its name.

This view of the High Street shows many buildings that have either since disap- peared or have been radi- cally reworked.

Originally known as Langley House, this was the home of Robert Henty, brother of G A Henty and of Lord Kindersley, Director of the Bank of England.

The name Hodder means 'pleasant stream'. It is a Celtic name, and it describes the river well.

Bank Park was fashioned out of the private gardens of Bank Hall.

The former London, City and Midland Bank has become plain Midland Bank, but familiar names such as Hepworths and H Samuel remain unchanged from earlier years, though sporting modern faciae.

The White Hart (left) contained what was probably the oldest letter box. It was discovered in 1988, and had been in use from 1842.

Billy Banks Wood, prominent in views from Castle Walk, is ancient 'hanging' woodland clinging to limestone rock on the south bank of the River Swale just west of Richmond Castle.

This is the first Waterloo Bridge, which was opened in 1817 by the Prince Regent; this view looks from behind Cleopatra's Needle on the north bank. Below are Victoria Embankment Gardens.

In this view the photographer is looking north from the 'mainland' bank to the bridge, Boatslide Weir Bridge, which links Mill Meadows Island with Longholme.

'Kirkby', from which West Kirby derives its name, was established by a small group of Scandinavian settlers in the 10th century.

The building to the right of the memorial is Old Bank House.

Atop his pedestal, James Ramsden (then flanked by street lights at each corner of his enclosure) is looking up Abbey Road.

By 1941 planning was well under way to rebuild the shattered heart of Coventry.

On the north bank, Embankment Gardens were laid out in the late 1880s with wide tree-lined walks along the river bank.

We are looking from the second floor of the Victoria Hotel. Manchester Exchange Station (technically in Salford) is on the left, the Cathedral on the right.

The railway (in the 1950s the LNER's east coast main line) brought further prosperity; this included the building of a new town hall in the 1860s, seen here with its clock tower.